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Definition of 'GIG' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) gig
a light, two-wheeled one-horse carriage.

2.  gig
a light boat rowed with four, six, or eight long oars.

3.  gig
something that whirls.

4. (v.i.) gig
to ride in a gig.

5. (n.) gig
a device, commonly four hooks secured back to back, for dragging through a school of fish to hook them through the body.

6.  gig
a spearlike device with a long, thick handle, used for spearing fish and frogs.

7. (v.t.) gig
to catch or spear (a fish or frog) with a gig.

8. (v.i.) gig
to catch fish or frogs with a gig.

9. (n.) gig
a military demerit.

10. (v.t.) gig
to give a gig to.

11. (n.) gig
a single professional engagement, usu. of short duration, as of jazz or rock musicians.

12.  gig
any job, esp. one of short or uncertain duration.

13. (v.i.) gig
to work as a musician, esp. in a single engagement.

Etymology:  (1925–30; orig. uncert.)

Definition of 'GIG' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) gig
long and light rowing boat; especially for racing

2. (noun) spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

3. (noun) gig
a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting

4. (noun) gig
tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain

5. (noun) gig
small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood

6. (noun) gig
a booking for musicians
"they played a gig in New Jersey"


Definition of 'GIG' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) gig
a unit of computer memory equal to about a billion bytes
I added 60 gig of memory.


Definition of 'GIG' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) GIG
a fiddle

2. (noun) GIG
a kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig

3. (noun) GIG
a playful or wanton girl; a giglot

4. (noun) GIG
a top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play

5. (noun) GIG
a light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise

6. (noun) GIG
a long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig

7. (noun) GIG
a rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth

8. (verb) GIG
to engender

9. (verb) GIG
to fish with a gig


Definitions of 'GIG' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  GIG
[SI] See quantifiers.



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